Twitter acquires Bagcheck

[shalmanese]

Bagcheck had so much promise :(. The UI was so elegantly designed and there are still bits of it that I'm trying to pull apart for my own designs.

At the end of the day though, the engagement just wasn't there. You would go on there a few times, check out a couple of bags, maybe create one or two and then never come back. It's sad it didn't work out but the founders are all insanely talented people and I'm sure whatever they go on to do next, it will also be awesome.

[jkaljundi]

Quite interesting they went for one of the smallest ones in this sphere and not Pinterest: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bagcheck.com+pinterest.com+... - also similar is thefancy.com.

[faramarz]

Thanks for mentioning Pinterest as a comparison, because for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what Bagcheck was or how to use it.

Pinterest on the other hand took me a mere 10seconds to figure out what it was and how enthusiastically I wanted to use it.

[notatoad]

i get the impression that this is more of a talent acquisition. i doubt twitter cares about the product all that much.

[rokhayakebe]

Pinterest is probably my favorite web discovery for 2011. I can easily get lost in there for 15 minutes/day repining. I am sure some users spend one hour or more/day on the site.

[transition]

Annoys me when i can't create an account on a site without a twitter or facebook account. Not everybody uses these services.

[eli]

A twitter account is a pretty low bar. You don't have to use your real name and you don't have to tell anyone it exists.

[dpcan]

But enough people do. Time to get on the bandwagon.

[mitchellhislop]

I see this fairly often. Why not make an account solely for auth/signup on these sites. Most of the time people who say this talk about how they don't have the time, don't want to be on social media, concerns about privacy, etc. If you have an account just for logging in to FB Connect, it seems like the problems are alleviated.

[MatthewPhillips]

Implement Facebook Connect: 5 minutes. Implement own login system (with login screen, register screen, forgot your password screen, CAPTCHA, and making sure BCrypt is working properly): X hours. I'll do the former, even if it annoys 0.1% of possible users.

[khangtoh]

Looks like just a talent acquisition of one developer. The other co-founder, Luke, is not even joining Twitter. If I would to guess, the acquisition is sub $500,000. Any other guesses?

[brianm]

Sam is worth well over 500k.

[smackfu]

Is this a talent acquisition, or does Twitter plan to roll this into their site somehow?

[matthewj]

Wish I had come across BagCheck before. It looks like a great site!

[joshu]

congrats, sam and luke!